Suspensory.



E. A. SOHMERTZ.

SUSPENSORY.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 11, 1904.

Patented Jan. 19, 1909.

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EDWARD AUGUSTUS SCHMERTZ, OF ATLANTIC CITY, NEW JERSEY.

SUSPENSORY.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 19, 1909.

Application filed June 11, 1904. Serial No. 212,116.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EDWARD AUGUSTUS SoHMERTz, a citizen of the United States, residing at Atlantic City, in the county of Atlantic and the State of New Jersey, have invented a new and useful suspensory, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates generally to suspensory bandages and more particularly to certain improvements for supporting the sack, the object being to provide for the quick and easy adjustment of said sack whereby the scrotum can be supported in the proper manner and all chafing or undue pressure which ordinarily occurs in suspensories are entirely avoided.

Another object is to provide a suspensory which shall be exceedingly cheap and simple and one which will not be bunglesome when in use.

My invention consists in the novel features of construction hereinafter described, pointed out in the claim, and shown in the accompanying drawing, in which:

Figure 1, is a perspective view of a suspensory constructed in accordance with my invention. Fig. 2, is a face view of the front portion of the belt and Fig. 3, is a top edge view of the said part.

In carrying out my invention I employ a bag or sack A which may be made of any desired material and which is made quite shallow as compared with bags or sacks now in common use for this purpose, but as the main purpose of a suspensory is to support the scrotum and other parts it is obvious that it is not necessary nor desirable to completely envelop them. This bag or sack has a binding A and connected to said binding at the opposite sides of the bag are the suspending tapes B which are adapted to be connected to the belt. This belt consists of a front piece G having buckles D at each end and to which the ends of the waistband E are connected. Thus the belt can be made to snugly fit any size waist.

The front piece 0 has a piece of fabric F connected to the inner face thereof to prevent the body being chafed, and it will be noted that the piece of fabric F is longer than the front piece C so that the buckles will contact with the extending ends F and will not contact with the body.

G G indicate parallel rows of stitching connecting the front and rear pieces C and F and providing vertical guide ways H H adjacent the ends of the front piece and through which the ends of the tapes are adapted to pass, said tapes being passed through a central loop I connected to the upper edge of the front piece, the tapes being passed through the loop in opposite directions as shown in Fig. 2 and by pulling upon the tapes, the bag or sack can be adjusted to any desired point and after being so adjusted they can be tied in a knot K and the bag will be held in its proper position.

It is obvious that the bag can be quickly and easily adjusted and in as much as the bag or sack positively supports the scrotum all unnecessary straps and appliances are dispensed with and a suspensory provided which will not chafe the person nor produce undue pressure at any point. By having the bag quickly and easily adjustable the suspensory can be made to accommodate all cases.

Having thus described my invention,what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

A suspensory comprising a depending bag, supporting tapes connected to opposite ends of the bag, a waist band, a front piece to which the waist band is connected, said piece having a loop formed centrally on its upper edge, and having transverse vertically extending guides on opposite sides of the loop, the tapes passing upwardly through said guides, and being secured to the loop.

EDWARD AUGUSTUS SCHMERTZ.

Witnesses:

HOWARD G. HARRIS, GEORGE A. ELVINS. 

